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Description

NIVA is a pacifistic exploration art game.
The player slips into the role of a mighty forest god to restore the harmony in a mesmerizing forest and relieve it of a mysterious infestation. This shuddersome, mothlike infestation is drawn to the conflicts of the forest's inhabitants. Through observation and by using the abilities of nurturing and withering fascinating plants the player can solve said conflicts. NIVA's scenic art style, relaxing music and simple but intriguing game mechanics invite to explore the forest and have a rest from the stressful everyday life.

History

Our goal was to create a world with a relaxing athmosphere and music which helps the players calm
down and relieve the stress of their everyday lifes. To achieve this we created a world in a vibrant
chalk texture style which leaves a feeling like walking through a 3 dimensional pain ng. The
mesmerizing forest with its imagina ve plants and animals are inspired by childhood media like
Disney’s „Sleeping Beauty“, „Bambi“, „Alice in wonderland" and Ghibli’s „Princess Mononoke".
Therefore the style of the game feels posi vely familiar to our target group. The design of the player
character - the Forest God - is a hybrid of a herbivore (deer) and a carnivore (lion). Both of these
animals are known as symbols of royalty thus he is neither good nor bad like nature itself.

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About Follow the Feathers

We’re a small independent studio from Vienna, Austria. For the past five years we have worked together as a tight-knit team and developed our games - YoKaisho and NIVA - which were honored with various international awards and nominations. We thrive to create family friendly experiences which captivate our players through their curious game mechanics and mesmerizing art style. We are currently working on our next game: Weaving Tides.